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Israel continues to terrorise Palestinians whilst attacking Iran

Israel have continued to terrorise Palestinians during their attack on Iran. Despite focusing their time and energy on attacking journalists in Iran, the genocidal warmongers have continued to kill Palestinians. Middle East Eye reported that:

Israeli forces killed at least 80 Palestinians and wounded hundreds in two ambushes at US-run aid distribution centres in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

Eyewitnesses told Middle East Eye that Israeli forces ambushed thousands of starving Palestinians, killing and wounding hundreds in the attacks.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that 30 people were killed in Rafah, and almost 50 were killed in Khan Yunis. Israel have reduced the entry of food aid trucks to less than a trickle. And, over the past weeks has made a pattern of attacking a starving population as they gather for what little food there is.

Israel’s cruelty

Journalist Sarah Wilkinson shared footage of Palestinians running in terror as Israeli forces opened fire:

MintPress News also shared footage of panicked scenes in Khan Yunis as people ran for their lives:

5Pillars shared an interview with Gaza’s deputy minister of health, Dr. Yousef, who explained:

In Rafah, Al Jazeera spoke to a young girl whose brother was killed by Israeli forces as he tried to find food:

She said:

His name was Hamza, and he was very kind to me.

Israeli ambush

Abdalla Elyyan, who lives in Khan Younis, told Middle East Eye:

We headed to the distribution point after hearing that wheat would be handed out – at 7am, we were ambushed in the Tahlia area.

Chaos erupted. People were strewn across the streets – so many killed and wounded

Can you imagine shells raining down on thousands of people packed into a small area? The number of people killed was staggering.

The American-Israeli collaboration, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), has been heavily criticised by legitimate aid distributors. One woman described how it has now become horrifically commonplace for aid spots to be sites of massacres:

It’s a trap, not an aid organisation. It’s a trap to kill our men…They set up this new aid mechanisms so they can lure our young men and kill them one by one.

The Canary’s Charlie Jaay reported that:

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution mechanism reinforces control over the life-saving supplies that are so desperately needed by Gaza’s population, giving Israel the power to decide who receives aid and who will be left to die, while attempting to mislead the public into believing Palestinians are benefitting.

Settler attacks

Israel is currently occupied with retaliation from Iran, after the former’s unprovoked attack. However, it would appear that settler bloodthirstiness knows no bounds. Israeli settlers have been attacking Palestinian properties and setting them on fire.

Abdel Aziz, who owns a factory in al-Mazra’a al-Sharqiya in the West Bank described:

When we went to the factory, we found the settlers had set fire to the existing vehicles and mobile rooms.

They were all armed, and we tried to confront them, unarmed.

Despite having decimated infrastructure vital to life, Israel remains unsatisfied with the death and destruction it has spread in Palestine. Aziz said:

The settlers’ goal is to undermine the Palestinian economy in the eastern part of Ramallah, which is concentrated in our town.

He concluded:

They don’t want quiet, they want constant problems. They even destroyed the olive trees on the sides of the road. Everything in their ideology is terrorism

Terrorism

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said:

Israel’s warfare in Gaza is inflicting horrifying, unconscionable suffering on Palestinians.

And, he urged those with influence to:

exert maximum pressure on Israel to bring this unbearable suffering to an end.

A reminder, were it needed, that the UK and in particular the US, could end Palestinian suffering if they wished to. The fact is that not only have they not exerted “maximum pressure” but have enabled, and facilitated Israel’s genocide. It’s simply not true that they’re complicit. Complicity implies only an implication in the crime. They’re guilty, outright.

After all, Israel couldn’t unleash all this terror without them.

Featured image – YouTube screenshot/Al Jazeera English

By Maryam Jameela

This post was originally published on Canary.